Bitchin/ RESOLUTION [Archive] - Vulcan Bagger Forums

skeeter

01-24-2009, 01:48 AM

I do so like to see the pictures of your pride and joy. However....

It really is a pain in the ass to slide the screen back and forth to access the entire text of the posts. Especially on those that have a lot to say.

So if you have to ask if this makes your butt look big......

You Betcha! ;)

Please be considerate and downsize your sig pics.

There is a cure.[color=red:lnu74uw0] MY diplay resolution was set on 800 X 600 and that was MY problem. At Trips suggestion I bumped it up to 1024 X 768. Made it a whole lot better[/color:lnu74uw0]

Read the thread anyway.

mikesth

01-24-2009, 08:30 AM

YAY! Seems we gotta go through this every three months or so

radco

01-24-2009, 08:33 AM

Yea it bugs me as well...

cactusjack

01-24-2009, 08:50 AM

People need to be reminded of this from time to time.

emu

01-24-2009, 08:51 AM

I concur ...

refugio

01-24-2009, 09:59 AM

Yes

trip

01-24-2009, 10:09 AM

If non-footer pictures can be kept no bigger than 640x480, everyone should be able to handle it fine. It's the pics that are larger that is killing everyone.

Rule of thumb:
Footer pics: Limit size to 400 resolution or less.
Pics in posts: 640x480 or less.

Trip

PS. If you can't resize your pics or don't know how, feel free to file attach them in an email to me at robert@hilliard.ws and I'll resize for you.

dabull

01-24-2009, 02:36 PM

Fellas...on my puter my footer isn't a problem....so, on your puter, is it? If so I can resize...holla

Derry

pooker

01-24-2009, 02:45 PM

Also it really hurts when they reply and the pic is in the reply too.

I have dial up!!!

darthvulcan

01-24-2009, 03:59 PM

Derry, looks good to me.

dantama

01-24-2009, 04:24 PM

I've never had to scroll side to side until SWB put a bigger pic in his footer this week. Don't know if its smaller now or not, but it was a first.

I haven't changed mine for a long time, and last I asked nobody had to scroll.

How about the scrollers call out in a friendly way to who needs to get smaller. Do I?

schoeney

01-24-2009, 07:09 PM

Is mine too big?

jonsamson

01-24-2009, 07:35 PM

I use a 15" screen with larger fonts and everyone posted so far no scrolling so far.
-Jon

skeeter

01-24-2009, 07:48 PM

Hard to pin down who the culprit is when there are more than a few possibilities.

Don't want to cry foul on every thread or offend my buds. Hence this thread.

Derry, I rhink the number of pics in your case is the problem. The sum total of the pictures set side by side exceeds the limitations of the smaller screens.

Dan, I'm missing the bottom half of your left fork in your third pic. However, every post is stretched when one is. Yours may be OK. If Derry fixes his we can critique yours. http://s2.images.proboards.com/cool.gif

Pooker, I feel for ya man. My computer went down and I had to go to Moms and use her dial-up. I could only do it once. It was easier to wait a couple days for mine to get fixed. Don't know how blessed you are till your high-speed is gone.

Schoeney.... your just blocking the view. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

skeeter

01-24-2009, 07:57 PM

I changed my font size and it made no difference.

dabull

01-24-2009, 09:20 PM

if that didn't do it, its not me:) or its your puter:)

caddman11

01-24-2009, 09:29 PM

I'm sure glad it wasn't me bitching this time, I did it the last time and I'm glad someone else picked up the ball this time.

dabull

01-24-2009, 09:32 PM

I'm sure glad it wasn't me bitching this time, I did it the last time and I'm glad someone else picked up the ball this time.

Hows it look to you on this page? Mine look ok now?

rallyjunkie

01-24-2009, 11:08 PM

looks good..No scrolling from my end needed

Top Cat

01-24-2009, 11:12 PM

Right now the only one who makes me have to scroll is SWB.

Just found another one, towering also makes me scroll.

dhomoney

01-25-2009, 12:30 AM

What is dial up??????

skeeter

01-25-2009, 01:55 AM

Derry , you are in bounds now. To be honest, I'd rather you ditch one pic or stack'em like our resident movie star than lose being able to actually see detail.

We don't, but I wish we had the option of clicking to enlarge (sig pics and avatar) but I can see it now... we'd have so many pics in our sig lines Pooker (dial-up) would die of old age before he got a peek. LOL. There would have to be limits.
Some people have a link to Photobucket or some such with pics to share in their sig line. I have enjoyed that option at times.

I have a 15" monitor and I'm still chopping pics on CJ, Dan and now Cadd2. I went to Full screen and it helped but marginally. It is not as bad as it was before Derry adjusted.

I am finding this thread very constructive and productive. I do appreciate your attempts to accommodate. Skeeter

rksaw

01-25-2009, 02:01 AM

I live in a rural area and had to wait for nearly five years to get DSL and man do I love it. The church had to get satelite service to have "high speed" and it's still not as fast as DSL. It's hard to think how many people in this country still only have dial up.
Rich

Cajunrider

01-25-2009, 02:03 AM

I remember dial up. Kind of like watching grass grow or better yet watching paint dry.....

Top Cat

01-25-2009, 10:31 AM

What is dial up??????

Dial up is an internet connection that uses your phone line to load. It is very slow and ties up your phone when you are signed on. I have a program called web accel installed on my computer so it is a little faster than my dial up system alone. I still can't view a lot of videos the guys post. I can't get high speed or DSL out here in the country where I live. i could get satellite by Hugesnet but it is to damn expensive for me. i will suffer through slow loading for now.

dantama

01-25-2009, 11:48 AM

Checking my pic size again now that there are different posts on a new page

poppy

01-25-2009, 11:58 AM

For every forum I visit, I always choose not to show sigs for this very reason. Nothing personal but some sigs are just too much. ::)

dabull

01-25-2009, 01:02 PM

dial up is what you used to do to talk to your friends...now you just text'em....

darthvulcan

01-25-2009, 01:26 PM

Hi Skeeter. Just a question I'd like to throw out. I have a 15" monitor also, and I rarely have to scroll sideways to see the all the posts and images. Are you by chance using an unusually large font in your internet settings?

If you are using Internet Explorer, if you click View, then scroll down to Text Size, are you set at Medium which I think is the default? If your settings are any larger, this may be the problem.

Just a guess on my part, but maybe worth a look?

Top Cat

01-25-2009, 03:23 PM

My view is set to medium and I have a 15" moniter and I have to scroll quite a bit.

skeeter

01-26-2009, 12:47 AM

Hey Darth, I've changed the font size up and down with no difference. I have somehow stumbled on some sort of a solution.

It is still a bit of a pita but it's a bit better than scrolling side to side all the time.

In the page settings above text size and encoding, are the zoom settings.
Kicked back to 75% and it goes to 3/4 screen so I'm not utilizing the entire monitor.

Then I had to kick the font size up to largest so I could read the text.
My typing has slowed down considerably as the font in the message box remains tiny and I have a hard time editing for mistakes. You might have to live with bad typing.

Have to change settimgs back to normal for all other browsing.

skeeter

01-26-2009, 12:49 AM

Dang, I'm on page three by myself.

somebody please post to blow this up.

when I go to the forum jump box, I can't even read the print and have to guess where I'm going.

Top Cat

01-26-2009, 09:01 AM

Screw that, leave your computer screen as it was, let the offenders change their sig pic size, it is NOT your computer or mine. It is the OVERSIZED sig pics that are the problem.

socwkbiker

01-26-2009, 10:12 AM

Bitch,bitch,bitch,bitch, bitch! Geez, y'all sound like BD! http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif
Yes, I was a culprit of the 4 pic scroll to the right because I used too large a pic. I've deleted one for now so there shouldn't be any problems. But let me know and I will use a small size.

Thanks for bringing this up though. Sometimes all of us forget that not everyone has DSL or cable and that these big pics can be disruptive.

trip

01-26-2009, 10:18 AM

I changed my font size and it made no difference.

Skeeter,
It's not really your font size, but your screen resolution. You may be set at 800x600 or smaller. Try 1028 or larger if you can.

Top Cat

01-26-2009, 07:03 PM

Thank You SWB, thats much better. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif
Trip, come on, its the over sized pics, not our computers. ;)
Now if towering would change his that would help also. :-/

skeeter

01-26-2009, 08:09 PM

jonsamson

01-26-2009, 08:17 PM

I am also needing to scroll also for just a few but lots of scrolling on all the posts in the thread because of the couple that do have over sized sig lines. I use a 15" monitor, but keep in mind if it is a wide screen than one would have to scroll less. My text size is set to Medium also.
-Jon

skeeter

01-26-2009, 08:34 PM

For those that need to change their Screen Resolution...

Go thru the Start button

then Control Panel

then double click Display

at the top of the box hit the Settings tab

Slide the bar to the right till you get desired #s

click OK and your screen will black out for a second and you'll get a box asking are you sure.
Click OK and the settings will stay. If you don't confirm the settings will revert to the old ones.

Top Cat

01-26-2009, 11:26 PM

Thanks Guys,
Just read Trips post and changed my resolution to 1024 X 768 and that seemed to cure it for me. Except for Towering,LOL.
If he can sit up instead of laying down we could take it all in. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

Even Derry could kick his photos back up!

CJ is good as well as Dan, Cadd2, and rksaw.

and Schoeny is still blocking the view

Maybe I don't get it ???
If you changed your settings and some some people still cause you to scroll, what did you gain?
I haven't changed my settings and the same guys you are still having trouble with are the same guys I am having trouble with.
So why would I want to change my settings ???

skeeter

01-26-2009, 11:56 PM

TC I no longer have a problem with the majority at my present resolution.

The one member I still have to scroll with does not post very much or at least not in the threads I frequent so it is not much of an issue. However if he will kneel while playing basketball I might have a chance to beat him. Or If he will adjust his sig pics I don't think this will be an issue anymore.

As for Schoeney, I was only teasing that his mug was in the way of the view.

Present resolution is 1024 X 768. It was very simple to change. I did bump up the text size a notch but that was easy too and I'm pretty handicapped when it comes to computers. I am sometimes too proud to ask and have to find things out the hard way. Trial and error.... mostly error.

unwind2

01-27-2009, 06:09 PM

So if you have to ask if this makes your butt look big......

You Betcha! ;)

Now you know you should never say that to us ladies.LOL http://s2.images.proboards.com/lipsrsealed.gif

Yellow Jacket

01-27-2009, 07:48 PM

Hey guys. You don't have to put your sig pics side by side. You can stack them by just putting a "carriage return" (the enter key) after the pic. For instance, if you want four sig pics you could stack them two over two. Put in the url for the first two, hit enter and then put in the next two. That way you can have a nice size pic without it getting real wide across the screen.

skeeter

01-27-2009, 11:44 PM

Now you know you should never say that to us ladies.LOL http://s2.images.proboards.com/lipsrsealed.gif

I live on the edge...

and just out of reach.

gghost

01-28-2009, 12:03 AM

skeeter

01-28-2009, 12:21 AM

Sorry. Know no other way. :( I have been assimilated by Microsoft Windows operating system. So however you need to get to your display settings, your on your own. ;)

jonsamson

01-28-2009, 12:44 AM

skeeter, I looked all over my Ubuntu system and didn't find what you were talking about...Start Button? Control Panel? http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif http://s2.images.proboards.com/cool.gif

If those with too many or oversized pictures reduced them some than one wouldn't need to find a control panel or start button.

I find it interesting this thread is now 4 pages long and none of the people that have the long signature lines have posted here.

One of the things I learned in the MC community when I started riding with a club was respect. Out of respect you don't sit on another's bike without their invite. Same here as I see it. Respect those of us that can size our pictures to be friendly and not annoying to a lot of others. It is easier for them to downsize the pictures than for the rest of the community to try and change screen resolutions and scroll back and forth on every post because of one offender. We are not dis respecting those that want to have the pictures, and I love looking at them and the posting of pictures have been very helpful, I just don't like scrolling back and forth like so many others here.

Changing resolutions is compensating for a few that cause a larger group to be inconvienced. It makes more sense for the few to change their pictures so the larger group doesn't have to change computer settings.
-Jon

gghost

01-28-2009, 08:11 AM

Skeeter, I understand. I have been a user of MS since DOS 1.9 on my first system using 2 floppy drives, no memory. I do like using Ubuntu on my non-work PC. Work is still thru the dreaded MS.

jonsamson, agree with what you say. If we all kept our stuff within the boundaries Trip set, there would be no problem.

skeeter

01-28-2009, 12:57 PM

With my screen resolution set at 1024 X 768 my issue of scrolling from side to side has been resolved with one exception.

After scanning thru all the new posts in general topics, I only found one that wouldn't fit. After experimenting with my resolution I exceded the point where I couldn't find the (X) button at the top of the page and still couldn't get the mans pictures completely on the page.

Changing your resolution to be able to view comfortably along with the majority seems like a reasonable concession.

I started out in this thread pointing fingers at others until someone pointed back with a solution.

dabull

01-28-2009, 10:42 PM

ok...so we all blow our pictures back up??? :)

skeeter

01-28-2009, 11:31 PM

Thanks Guys,
Just read Trips post and changed my resolution to 1024 X 768 and that seemed to cure it for me. Except for Towering,LOL.
If he can sit up instead of laying down we could take it all in. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

Even Derry could kick his photos back up!
CJ is good as well as Dan, Cadd2, and rksaw.

and Schoeny is still blocking the view

As far as I'm concerned, Yes. Don't know how evryone else is handling this. Thanks for your willingness to accomodate.

I'll let you know if your disproportionate. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif